Hugh Lincoln Cooper
American civil engineer
Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865–June 24, 1937) was an American colonel and civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.
Biography
Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper moved to Rushford Minnesota and graduated from Rushford High School. Cooper was a self-educated civil engineer. He worked throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, and Soviet Union. During World War I he served as a supervising engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.
Supervised constructions
Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906)
Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
Wilson Dam, Florence–Muscle Shoals, Alabama (1918-1924)
Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919)
Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour
References
External links
Hugh Lincoln Cooper Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at the American Society of Civil Engineers website.
M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine. Life Magazine, 1931.
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